Jerry Yang

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Mr. Jerry Yang is a Co-Founding Partner of AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Alibaba Group. He is a Chairman of the Investment Committee and Member of the Compensation Committee at Workday. He also served as Venture Advisor at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He serves as an Advisor at SignalFire. He also served as Advisor at Radius Intelligence. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at Docker. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Advisor at News Break.